Gun Control Hysteria

   I am a legal gun owner. I do not want the U.S. to alter our national gun laws, unless it were to expand privleges or relax restrictions on them. If individual states wish to experiment with a range of approaches to firearm regulation, well, that is what states' legal systems exist for. But I will continue to live in states that allow me private ownership of firearms, so long as the option exists. While I recognize the fact that firearms can be used to commit crimes, so too can a wide range of other tools (none of which are the subject of comparable media hysteria or legal interference).
   In modern U.S. life, we are often motivated to support organizations because they are simply the only allies available. I regularly vote for Democrats. I am not, myself, a Democrat - I am something both left and right of them,  some Anarchist "ism" or other. But the Democrats frequently either most closely represent my beleifs/political needs; or, most often,  really are just defence against the republican candidate. In rare cases, the situation is reversed, and I vote against a democrat.
   It is this sort of relationship I have with the NRA. I do not really like much about the NRA. Many of the people that work as spokesmen for them really alienate me. And in social life, I do not have alot of friends that are members. Or if I do, I do not know it, because they are'nt telling. But I am an NRA member. This organization represents my interests to a certain extent- the privledge/right to lawfully keep, own, and use, firearms.
    In their job as lobbyists protecting my Firearm privliges, I expect them to perform. I want them to succeed as pro-firearm lobbyists. I do not have to like the NRA or its spokesmen to be a member. They kind of need to be awful, I think,  as they exist to lobby politicians - a bunch of lying, morally bankrupt vampiric elites. They have to be awful to be able to influence politicians. The NRA has a core mission; currently, it represents my interests in that respect.